Mr Fro

Get stuffed!

Nearly there: Ran out of shiplap thanks to wife changing her mind about the corner junctions. I had a little try at torching the roof felt - it's a total piece of piss! I can't believe people charge to do it! Wife just went and had a look at how I'm getting along and said "I think this would be good as a summer house".

Steady yourselves for shed part III. *Just* the walls, felting and door to do now...

I got the footings and slabs sorted for shed II and started painting up the joists with eco creosote (shyte): I've also finally finished cutting all the timber for the structure. It's taken me an aaaage to cut all the lap joints. I had to clear up 5 or 6 loads of sawdust from my bodging area.

@fastbob?

Ah, disappointing - I haven't seen Richard in aaaages. Welcome anyhow.

Are you the real Justin Case then?

Nah, they're for the footings for the new shed. That's my neighbour's garage anyway. Oh and just for fun, now that I've finished the digging and laid the hard-core, the wife has changed her mind about how she wants it.

You sure? I heard battery eliminators are all the rage.

Ripe for a bit of a restomod there Bob.

In the beginning there was a shed: Then there was no shed: Tune in next time to see what happens!

Are you Richard's brother?

Schlepped in to town for new shoes for the kids. It was great. I got dragged in to H&M where the lift was busted and the kiddie clothes were on the 1st floor. It's astonishing the amount of people who will stop what they're doing to watch some bloke going up an escalator carrying a toddler while simultaneously precariously balancing a pushchair containing a baby with their other arm. And the queues - I'd forgotten about them!

Well in theory, it's entirely possible to convert a petrol engine to diesel. "All you need to do" is bonk up the compression, fiddle the ECU, adapt the throttle body, work the cam a bit and up the final drive ratio. A turbo would be good too. I've seen a chopper with a generator engine in it. It worked well as it had a discrete belt driven gearbox rather than an integral unit those of us in the modern world are used to.

Game on mate!

Shit planning son. Just got the exams to get through now. We had mocks last week - when we got the thermodynamics paper the class as a whole went "Aaaaaaaaah... shit".

Modern diesel is better in terms of power consumption from primary fuel given the efficiencies of EV chargers and losses in energy production. EV however has lower net carbon emissions per unit distance but not by much. It's only something like 36kg carbon per year in it. A modern diesel car with brake energy recovery and exhaust energy recovery would dick all over EV in both cases. Happy motoring y'all.

I finished up my dissertation. If anyone wants to know anything about diesel ICE hybrids vs electric vehicles, I'm your man.

f*kin weird isn't it. I caught a peg on a cat's eye while riding a Golding and it bent the thing back. Imagine twatting your foot on one!

I don't think CBT is enough by any stretch however, I do remember the deep joy at being able to ride after a day of passing about on bikes. I see loads of yoofs riding scooters round and about my uni and almost all of them put their foot down when going round corners GTA style.

Preload reduces the initial load on the springs - reducing it will lower the bike a little when you get on it. Leave the compression & rebound alone to start with - they have no effect on ride height. It's better to change one thing and see what happens than do it all at once and not know what did what.

@onesea @Stu - yes, it's very good, cheap too! I used it on the turbo project and it didn't harm the aluminium, magnesium or paint on the engine. Recently I've been using it to clean up the sminge from some 40 odd year old machinery. No damage to any paintwork there either. The only thing to note is that it does take a bit of washing off - a quick dribble from a watering can won't do it, it needs at least a blast from the hose.

Screwfix no nonsense degreaser. You'll know it's good because it'll knack the skin on your hands.

I went through quite a few different makes until I had a Shoei which fit me really well so I've stuck with them.

It's all in the name of eco mate.